Silica is deposited extra-and intracellularly in plants in solid form, as phytoliths. Phytoliths
have emerged as accepted taxonomic tools and proxies for reconstructing ancient flora …

Phytoliths are essential palaeoecological proxies that play an immensely important role in
palaeoclimatic studies. Their inert composition and general hardiness allow phytoliths to be …

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing
Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and …

Opaline phytoliths are important microfossils used in archaeological and ecological
research. Relatively little is known about the stability of phytoliths after burial. Under alkaline …

Aşıklı Höyük is the earliest known preceramic Neolithic mound site in Central Anatolia. The
oldest Levels, 4 and 5, spanning 8,200 to approximately 9,000 cal BC, associate with round …

Abstract Tell Seker al-Aheimar, located in the Upper Khabur, northeastern Syria, is an early
Neolithic settlement that chrono-culturally spans from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) to …

This paper explores the close links between botany and archaeology, using case studies
from the ancient Mediterranean. It explains the kinds of palaeobotanical remains that …

Wood ash found at archaeological sites is the most direct evidence of the presence of
combustion features. The preservation of wood ash within archaeological deposits is often …

The first Neolithic settlements in Southwest Asia began with a dual commitment to plant
cultivation and a sedentary lifestyle. The benefits that foragers-turned-farmers gained from …

For over half of a century, ethnoarchaeology has served as an important analytical tool in the
development of archaeological theory and the interpretation of human culture. In recent …